2011-03-29

The project to build a high-speed railway to connect the El Mutún iron ore deposit in Bolivia's Santa Cruz department with a Pacific ocean port will be defined in April, state steel company ESM board member José Padilla told BNamericas.

2011-03-29

Colombia's government plans to spend more of its oil royalties on agriculture and infrastructure, finance minister Juan Carlos Echeverry said at a conference of the Institute of International Finance (IIF), as part of the annual meeting of the IDB in Calgary.

2011-03-29

Paraguay's finance ministry has signed a US$19mn loan agreement with OPEC's Fund for International Development (OFID) to modernize and restructure the country's urban transport system and central government offices.

2011-03-28

Canada's finance minister Jim Flaherty has announced a US$5mn contribution to the Regional Infrastructure Fund as part of a multinational initiative to boost infrastructure in the Americas, with a specific focus on the Caribbean.

2011-03-28

The IDB group expects to more than double its annual financing to private companies in Latin America and the Caribbean to reach US$3bn annually by 2015, enabled by a US$70bn increase of the bank's ordinary capital, Steven Puig, the IDB's VP for the private sector and non-sovereign guaranteed ope...

2011-03-28

The US Trade & Development Agency USTDA has awarded a contract to US-based consultancy firm ACA Associates for a definitional mission (DM) to provide advisory and assistance for transport infrastructure modernization projects in El Salvador.

2011-03-28

Chile's public works ministry (MOP) and the government of south-central region VII have signed an agreement to finance a 115bn-peso (US$239mn) program for roads, highways and bridges.

2011-03-25

Paraguayan capital Asunción expects to launch a tender by end-May to build a new access road to the capital from Central department's Luque city, the presidential website reported.